package

org.springframework.security.web.authentication.www

WWW-Authenticate based authentication mechanism implementations: Basic and Digest authentication.

Classes

BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint Used by the ExceptionTraslationFilter to commence authentication via the BasicAuthenticationFilter
BasicAuthenticationFilter Processes a HTTP request's BASIC authorization headers, putting the result into the SecurityContextHolder
DigestAuthenticationEntryPoint Used by the SecurityEnforcementFilter to commence authentication via the DigestAuthenticationFilter
DigestAuthenticationFilter Processes a HTTP request's Digest authorization headers, putting the result into the SecurityContextHolder

Exceptions

NonceExpiredException Thrown if an authentication request is rejected because the digest nonce has expired.